2023 disasters in numbers
In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses
In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses
Discharge of untreated and partially treated industrial and municipal wastewater from towns constitute major source of pollution in rivers and lakes. CPCB is monitoring water quality of various river stretches
The sex ratio in the national capital has increased from 821 in 2001 census to 866 in 2011, but it is still below the national ratio, according to data released by the Delhi government which puts the city’s population at 1.67 crore. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit released the Delhi Statistical Hand Book on Tuesday. The book that the sex ratio was 866 females per 1,000 males in the capital in 2011, as compared to 821 females per 1,000 males in 2001. National sex ratio in 2011 was 940 females per 1,000 males.
New Delhi: The city seems to be paying an increasingly heavy price for its deteriorating air quality. An average of 23 people die every day due to respiratory diseases in the capital, a number that has
Dikshit releases Delhi Statistical Handbook, says city an attractive destination for all. With more than 5 lakh vehicles added to the roads in the last year, Delhi recorded the biggest jump ever in motor
Forest fires are being controlled in Tamil Nadu with the help of satellite data, forest officials say. Thanks to the availability of data on forest fires, it can be downloaded and overlaid with the administrative map of the forests to point the exact location in which it occurs. Talking about the facility, a senior forest official said active fire spots were detected using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer Sensors (MODIS) and the data is available on a daily basis for the entire world on the ‘Fire Information for Resource Management Systems’ website.
Current United Nations structures are highly inequitable and obstruct progress towards international climate policy cooperation.
This new report released by IVAC and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reveals that more than 99 per cent of all pneumonia deaths occurred in developing countries and 3/4 of it in 15 countries, among which India tops the list.
This article critically evaluates the government's pricing policy for petroleum products in India. It looks carefully at the notion of "under-recoveries" oil companies and attempts to compare it with their
South Asia is the region most vulnerable to increasing food inflation given that a large part of its population lives below or near the poverty line. An empirical analysis of the factors that could explain
<p><span id="itro1">India has 63 million people living with diabetes and is only second to China in terms of global diabetes cases warns this Diabetes Atlas 2012 released by International Diabetes Federation